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made prisoners of the two Eskimos, Sinnisiak nnd Uluksnk,* who had 

 killed the priests. Both prisoners were taken to Bernard Harbor and 

 in July we took Inspector LaNauze and Corporal Bruce out as passen- 

 gers on the Alasl-a from Bernard Harbor to Herschel Island. All 

 relations of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police with the expedition 

 have been most cordial, and while with the expedition, both Inspector 

 LaNauze and' Corporal Bruce did everything they could as vokmteer 

 assistants in whatever work was going on. 



The Alaska left a large permanent cache of provisions in the house 

 at Bernard Harbor, in case any parties should come down from the 

 Northern section during the next winter. The house was left in cus- 

 tody of the Rev. H. Girling, who wintered near Clifton Point with 

 the mission schooner Atlcon, and intended to establish a mission station 

 at Bernard Harbor in the summer of IQIG.'^* 



The Hudson's Bay Company's schooner Fort Macpherson, with Mr. 

 W. G. Phillips in charge, sailed from Herschel Island July 28, 1916, 

 after our arrival there, for the purpose of establishing a permanent 

 trading post for the company at Bernard Harbor. 



The Alaska, with all members of the Southern party on board, left 

 our headquarters for the past two years, at Bernard Harbor, July 13, 

 1916. We reached Pierce Point Harbor about midnight on July 23, 

 and Herschel Island July 28. 



[At Baillie and Herschel Islands the Eskimo members of the party 

 were discharged. The Alaska reached Nome August 15, 1916.] 



The extensive collections made by the party in geology and mineral- 

 ogy, ethnology, and archaiology, terrestrial and marine biology, botany 

 and photography, and our records and papers were landed safely at 

 Nome. As it was considered much safer to ship the results of our 

 three years' work out by the regular freight and passenger service from 

 Nome than to risk taking them through the north Pacific to Victoria 

 on a small schooner like the Alaska in the autumn season, all the col- 

 lections, scientific instruments, and what equipment was worth shipping 

 back, was trans-shipped to Seattle on the steamship Northwestern, of 

 the Alaska Steamship Company. The members of the party also took 

 passage to Seattle on the same steamer, leaving Nome August 27, and 

 reaching Seattle via the inside passage on September 11, 1916. All 

 collections had been safely received in Ottawa by the end of October, 

 1916. 



*Uluksak had spent the summer 1910 with Stefansson's party on the 

 Coppermine River and Dismal Lake. 



** Eventually this house became the permanent station of the Anglican 

 Mission, being presented to them, along with the stores, by the Government. 



